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In the fictional novel for young adults, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson, finds out that the life he has known is all a lie. He learns that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He also finds out that Zeus, the god of the skies, has accused him of stealing his most precious weapon, a lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Percy goes on an exciting journey to find the true culprit of the crime he has been accused of, and stop a civil war between…

Doctrina is the daughter of Athena, the Goddess of wisdom, and Zeus, the father and ruler of all gods, as well as the god of law, order, and justice. She was form formed from the wise thoughts of her mother and brought forth from her mind. She and her older brother Ares were raised by their parents. She learned a great deal from her brother but they were polar opposites. Ares is the god of violence and represents the chaos of war. He is moody and unreliable. Doctrina learned her military…

Athena is one of the many Greek Goddess's. She is the goddess of wisdom, war, patriotism, good citizenship, skill Athena is known most specifically for her strategic skill in warfare. Athena is the Protector of Athens. She taught cooking, sewing and weaving to the women and agriculture and metallurgy to the men. She had many siblings, but about 5 times as many half-siblings. These half-siblings were a result of Zeus' many affairs with his Her various names are: Anemotis ("protector of the…

Aphrodite was the goddess of love, desire, and beauty. She had natural beauty also, magical girdle that made everyone desire her. According to one she was the daughter of zeus and dione(goddess of worshipped at the oracles of dodona). The other account says she emerged from the sea on a giant scallop. She neglected those who did not pray to her and protected those who respected her. During the trojan war, aphrodite was declared the most beautiful godess by a trojan prince. she also saved paris…

The Blood of Olympus is the fifth and last book in “The Heroes of Olympus” series. This series is the second series following the “Percy Jackson” series. This series is about the children of ancient Greek and Roman gods in modern day United States. In it, the seven demigods of the prophecy, go on their final adventure to defeat Gaea while others attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos, a statue of an ancient Greek god, back to a camp just for young teens of Greek gods. The name of this camp is…

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self (Queen Latifah). Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story about a brave mongoose staying true to his heritage and fighting cobras. The Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story and movie have much in common, but there are also many differences. The characters acted slightly different in the story than in the movie. The person who said Rikki might not have been dead in the story was different from in the movie. In the movie, it was the father who had said Rikki was not dead.…

Athena was one of Zeus’s many daughters, but she was often called the lone child because of the way she was born. Instead of coming out of her mother, Athena was born from Zeus’s forehead after he ate her mother, Metis. There’s three stories about how she was birthed from his forehead. One of the three being that Zeus envied Metis for her wisdom so he devoured her. Zeus eventually got this enormous headache and Hermes cleaved Zeus’s head open with a double headed Minoan Axe, and Athena shot out…

“HERMES! TELL ME WHAT YOU DID WITH MY SWORD!” I was filled with rage as I stormed through the entrance of the central palace. As all the other gods and goddesses rolled their eyes, Hermes looked up at me with a calm expression despite my obvious anger, This only made me want to punch him in the face that much more. Yes, Hermes may have freed me from that horrible prison the other gods called a mere jar, but when he made that fake, innocent look I could have cared less. “Now Ares,” he said with…

Pangaea was one of the most strongest gods, next to Zeus. Pangaea in actually Zeus’s brother, but Zeus doesn’t like to talk about him. Pangaea was the oldest out of the four brothers. When Zeus became the god of gods, Pangaea had to bow down to his little brother. Nobody likes to talk about Pangaea because he died many centuries ago. Pangaea was the God Of War and was very muscular. Many people feared Pangaea. Even the great and powerful Zeus used to fear him. When Zeus became the lord of the…

Learning Log #5 American Renaissance Murals The image of a 1903 mural created for a US courthouse, is typical of an American Renaissance mural because it has a sense of a unified national identity. Also, the mural has various examples of Renaissance ideals of art. Some specifics being the columns on either side of the woman on a throne. The mural also shows the architecture (throne, columns, steps) as white. This is similar to many American Renaissance murals, to imitate the White City in…